`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.' So goes a line from Mark Knopfler's `Ode to Sonny Liston.' Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest over at First Things : N T Wright and R J Neuhaus. It's fun to see Wright taking the `Hayek's economics...

Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here .

but I do think the PCUSA dropping of the explicit reference to homosexuality in Heidelberg Catechism 87 does represent a better translation of the original German than the 1967 gloss/addition. Of course, we can have our suspicions about why the PCUSA is making this move now, but unbiblical motives...

`Any evening, any day, any time you're Lambeth way, you'll find 'em all doin' the Lambeth walk!' So goes the old song my granny taught me; but not any more, apparently. According to The Daily Torygraph, some bishops will be boycotting the Lambeth Conference this year. Read/watch it here . Just out...